Riots

  • 1735: Riot over the price of corn
  • 1753: Turnpike riots
  • 1800: Corn riots
  • 1811: Corn Riots
  • 1834: Military riot, 27 July
  • 1842: Chartist Riots and Plug Drawing
  • 1865: "Dripping Riots"
  • 1867: Fenian Riots, 15 Dec. See Leeds Coronations Festivities Programme 1902, Local Notes & Queries 1915-17, p.14.
  • 1917: Anti-Jewish riots, 5 June. See newspapers.
  • 1969: Race Riot: 27-28 July 1969 around Burley Rd, Woodsley Rd & Burley Lodge Rd.
    Youth, Kenneth Horsfall, stabbed to death.

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